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On the latest Sports Retort: Which underdogs will bite back during the NFL’s Wild Card weekend? Journal NFL savant Jonathan Clegg joins us for predictions, including whether the Andy Reid playoff curse continues in Indianapolis or quarterback Nick Foles returns to earth in Philadelphia.

We also revisit an earlier comparison of the Baylor-Central Florida Fiesta Bowl to “Sharknado.” In honor of the Winter Classic, we celebrate any and every sporting event that happens while it’s snowing. In his neverending quest for innovation, Jim lobbies for football fields tailor-made for each team: 5-yard end zones? Sure, why not? He’s also in favor of installing Sarlacc pits on golf courses. Plus, more bowl predictions, a critique of the circus and much more. Read More »

In this week’s wild-card playoff edition of our weekly video, Geoff Foster and I take deep dives into each of the four playoff games—Colts-Ravens, Bengals-Texans, Seahawks-Redskins and Vikings-Packers. All that, plus whether coaches like Andy Reid and Lovie Smith would be good fits for the seven league head-coaching openings—and whether retreads should ever be hired at all. Read More »

How much patience will Knicks fans have with Amar’e Stoudemire before the fire extinguisher chants begin?

If you can, try to think back to the great free agent bonanza of 2010 in which every aspiring high level NBA team lost its mind trying to get its hands on a superstar. The New York Knicks, then desperate for relevance following a decade of Isiahs and Stephons, shelled out a massive, massively uninsured contract to Amar’e Stoudemire, despite knowing his history of knee trouble. Now, the Knicks may be in a position where they can’t so easily ignore the realities of how his injuries have created a situation in which his production no longer justifies the amount of money he’s making. He made his season debut Tuesday against Portland to a standing ovation after missing the first couple of months while rehabbing from knee surgery, and didn’t quite tear the roof down. In 17 minutes, he scored six points on three-of-eight shooting from the floor, while grabbing just one rebound and looking generally lost on the defensive end. Despite 45 points from Carmelo Anthony, the Knicks couldn’t narrow the gap before time ran out. Read More »

On this week’s video, Jim Chairusmi and I discuss whether there’s such thing as too much football on Thanksgiving. (Spoiler alert: Jim is willing to commit to the 10-plus hours.) We delve into which coach will get fired first among the Hot Seat Three of Eagles coach Andy Reid, Brown coach Pat Shurmur and the somehow still-employed Norv Turner in San Diego. Read More »

This may be the 57th-worst thing that has happened to Michael Vick on a football field this fall.

There’s only so much that can or should be read into a football game—even one that happens on a Monday Night, even one that features baffling and kind of depressing interviews with presidential candidates at halftime—between two teams that would finish the game with the same 3-5 record. But the Philadelphia Eagles and New Orleans Saints are both teams with passionate fans that are inclined to attach a certain symbolic weight to their team’s successes and losses. On Monday, the success pretty much all belonged to New Orleans, which won 28-13. The Eagles gained 447 yards—the Saints have not held a team below 400 yards on the season, and this was the last game of Week 9—but scored just two field goals against two turnovers in five trips into the red zone. The result was a very strange football game—one that was never quite competitive, but in which the Eagles were seemingly constantly on the verge of taking command. Read More »

Australian Bernard Tomic must be thrilled that Andy Roddick waited until the day before their Friday match in front of a pro-U.S. crowd to announce his retirement.

Second-round tennis matches are rarely remembered, and the opening days of a Grand Slam tournament might seem a little slow to fans impatiently waiting for Federer-Djokovic LXI. (Only a slight exaggeration.) That’s not to say there isn’t good tennis being found by those with the luxury of an in-office TV. Already, the early rounds of the U.S. Open have provided a few surprises, such as the upset of No. 5 seed Jo-Wilfried Tsonga and the downing of a Williams sister.

Big news comes off the court, too. Andy Roddick announced Thursday his impending retirement following this year’s tournament. At an impromptu press conference held on his 30th birthday, the de facto face of American men’s tennis over the last decade described his waning commitment to playing at a high level after years of accumulated injuries and a slowly declining ATP ranking. The unexpected announcement forced a reconsideration of a fact that might’ve been lost over time: that Andy Roddick was – and still is – an extremely good tennis player, despite the unfortunate timing of his career. For all his success, he might’ve won more had it not been for the historically elite players he was soon to be surrounded by after taking the U.S. Open in 2003. “A son of Omaha, Neb., he was the brilliant U.S. tennis phenom who had the chronological misfortune to arrive in a sport just as it was about to be overtaken by Roger Federer, then Rafael Nadal, then Novak Djokovic,” writes the Journal’s Jason Gay. Read More »

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